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Werner Herzog

    5 de septiembre de 1942

    Werner Herzog es un cineasta cuyas obras a menudo se adentran en el reino de los sueños imposibles y los talentos peculiares. Asociado con el movimiento del Nuevo Cine Alemán, sus películas se caracterizan por una exploración distintiva de la condición humana. Herzog examina los límites de la ambición y la obsesión, frecuentemente ambientadas en paisajes implacables. Su enfoque cinematográfico desafía a los espectadores a contemplar el valor del esfuerzo frente a probabilidades abrumadoras.

    Werner Herzog
    Every Man for Himself and God Against All
    Screenplays
    A Guide for the Perplexed
    Spanien
    Del caminar sobre hielo
    Conquista de lo inútil
    • Por motivos que me son desconocidos, no me fue posible siquiera leer los diarios que escribí durante mi trabajo en la película Fitzcarraldo. Hoy, veinticuatro años más tarde, me resultó fácil, aun cuando técnicamente no fue sencillo descifrar la propia letra, que en aquel entonces estaba reducida a un tamaño microscópico. Estos textos no son un informe de filmación –apenas si se la menciona–, y diarios son sólo en el sentido más amplio: son otra cosa, más bien paisajes interiores, nacidos del delirio de la jungla. Pero tampoco de eso estoy seguro.

      Conquista de lo inútil
    • Un amigo parisino me llamó por teléfono a fines de noviembre de 1974. Me dijo que Lotte Eisner estaba muy enferma y que sin duda se iba a morir. Le respondí: 'No es posible. No en este momento. El cine alemán no puede prescindir todavía de ella, no debemos permitir que muera.' Tomé una chaqueta, una brújula, una bolsa de deportes y los enseres indispensables. Mis botas eran tan sólidas, tan nuevas, que merecían mi confianza. Me puse en camino hacia París por la ruta más directa, convencido de que, yendo a pie, ella sobreviviría. Además, tenía ganas de estar a solas conmigo mismo. Mi diario de marcha no estaba destinado a ser leído. Hoy, al volverlo a tomar mis manos, me ha conmovido singularmente, y el deseo de hacerlo leer me ha ayudado a vencer el pudor de mostrarme desnudo ante ojos extraños. En "Del caminar sobre hielo" el cineasta alemán Werner Herzog narra el viaje que emprendió entre Munich y París del 23 de noviembre de 1974 al 14 de diciembre del mismo año.

      Del caminar sobre hielo
    • A Guide for the Perplexed

      • 592 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      'One of the best things published about cinema.' Sight & Sound Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and the terrifying Nosferatu - and more recently with documentaries such as Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Into the Abyss, Herzog has built a body of work that is one of the most vital in post-war German cinema. Here, he reflects on his legendary and inspiring career.

      A Guide for the Perplexed
    • Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience. From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances and what these situations reveal about who we really are. But these are not just great cinematic themes. During the making of his films, Herzog pushed himself and others to the limits, often putting himself in life-threatening situations. As a child in rural Bavaria, a single loaf of bread had to last his family all week. The hunger and deprivation he experienced during his early years perhaps explain his fascination with the limits of physical endurance.All his life, Herzog would embrace risk and danger, constantly looking for challenges and adventures. Filled to the brim with memorable stories and poignant observations, Every Man for Himself and God against All unveils the influences and ideas that drive his creativity and have shaped his unique view of the world. This book tells, for the first time, the story of his extraordinary and fascinating life.

      Every Man for Himself and God Against All
    • Werner Herzog doesn't write traditional screenplays. He writes fever dreams brimming with madness, greed, humor, and dark isolation that can shift dramatically during production--and have materialized into extraordinary masterpieces unlike anything in film today. Harnessing his vision and transcendent reality, these four pieces of long-form prose earmark a renowned filmmaker at the dawn of his career -- Back cover

      Aguirre, the wrath of god
    • Love in Vain

      • 214 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg's remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson's life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnson's life and the culture of the Mississippi Delta and blues music during the 1930s, Love in Vain is at once a classic of music writing and a screenplay whose reputation lies firmly in the realm of great American literature.

      Love in Vain
    • Werner Herzog

      • 208 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Interviews with the director of Signs of Life; Aguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly Man; and Cave of Forgotten Dreams

      Werner Herzog
    • Memos from the Chairman

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      “Ace Greenberg did almost everything better than I do—bridge, magic tricks, dog training, and arbitrage—all the important things in life.” —WARREN BUFFETT Alan C. Greenberg, the former chairman of Bear, Stearns, and a celebrated philanthropist, was known throughout the financial world for his biting, quirky but invaluable and wise memos. Read by everyone from Warren Buffett to Jeff Bezos to Tom Peters (“I love this book,” the coauthor of In Search of Excellence said), Greenberg’s MEMOS FROM THE CHAIRMAN comprise a unique—and uniquely simple—management philosophy. Make decisions based on common sense. Avoid the herd mentality. Control expenses with unrelenting vigil. Run your business at the highest level of morality. Free your motivated, intelligent people from the chain of command. Always return phone calls promptly and courteously. Never believe your own body odor is perfume. And stay humble, humble, humble.

      Memos from the Chairman